Apparatus for manufacturing mosaic floor-cloth.



No. 629,280. Patented July l8, I899. F. WALTON. APPARATUS FORMANUFACTURING MOSAIC FLOUR CLOTH.

(No Model.)

" UNITED STATES PATENT I Grams.

FREDERICKWALTON, or LONDON, ENGLAND. I

A'PPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING MOSAlC FLOOR-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ",Patent No. 629,280, dated July18 1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREnERioK WALTON, manufacturer, a citizen ofEngland, residing at No. 114 Holborn, in the city of London, England,have invented new and'useful Improvements in Apparatus for theManufacture of Mosaic Floor-Cloth, (for which I have obtained patents inGreat Britain, No. 20,670, dated November 1, 1895; in France, No.258,782, dated August 10, 1896; in Belgium, No. 122,979, dated August10, 1896, and in Austria, No. 3,601/46, dated September 16, 1896,) ofwhich the following is a specification.

Machines of a comparatively complex and expensive character are employedfor plac ing the tesserze on backing fabric in proper positions to forma pattern and causing them by heat and pressure to cohere together andto adhere to the backing.

My invention relates to comparatively simple and inexpensive apparatusfor placing tesserze which have been cut to shape in any known manner inproper position on a cylinder and transferring them from said cylinderto backing fabric to be subjected to heat and pressure to cause thetesserae and backing to unite, as ,I shall describe, referring to theaccompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is an elevation'of the completingmachine. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe transferplate with some of the tesserze in position upon it. Fig. 3is a plan of the stencil-plate. Fig. 4 is a section showing part of thecomposing-plate, of the stencil-plate, and the extruding-plate. 1

I provide a number of composing-plates C,

' each having at each side a flange c and in each flange two holes 0' atadistance apart substantially double the distance of either from theedge of the plate. I provide also a number of stencil plates S, eachconsisting of a wooden frame 10, faced with a metal plate p, which hascut through it holes corresponding in.

shape and position with the tesserze intended for one color of thepattern. From each of these holes the wood slopes away. I also provideto suit each stencil-plate an extrudingplate E, having projecting studsa correspending in position with the holes in the stenoil-plate.

The completing-machine comprises a re- Application filed February 10,1897. Serial No. 622,872. (No model.)

volving drum D, which has pins projecting from its periphery, under ittwo endless steel bands B, passing around rollers driven by gearing Bfrom the drum D, so as to travel at the same surface speed, these bandshaving studs projecting from them at intervals apart corresponding tothose of the holes 0' 'of the composing-plate, a guide-roller 11, overwhich is led a web of backing fabric F from a roll Q, and a pressingapparatus of known kind consisting of a main rollerP and guiderollers,partly around which and between the main roller and heatedpressingrollers P passes an endless flexible band A. There may beprovided any suitable means for greasing the surface of the roller P,and there is a delivery-roller R.

The apparatus works as follows: Qne of the stencil-plates S is placed onone of the composing-plates O, and through the holes of thestencil-plate are passed the tesserae of one color. The extruding-plateE corresponding to the stencil is placed on the stencil-plate and pusheddown, so that its studs a press the tesserae on the composing-plate. Thestencil and extruding plates being then removed, another stencil-plateis placed on the composing-plate and tesseree ofa different color arepressed upon the composing-plate,

and this may be repeated for a third or fourth color, until thecomposing-plate is covered with the whole pattern. It is then placed onthe steel bands 13, by which it is carried tangentially under the drum Dalong with the.

backing fabric, through which the pins project. By these pins thetesserze are raised from the composing-plate and carried around with thebacking; around the drum D, and

thence between the drum P and the band A, subject to thepressing-rollers P, by which the tesserae are caused to cohere togetherand adhere to the backing, the completed floor cloth passing away overthe drum R.

The composing-plates C are preferably provided in such numbers'that acharged one can always be ready to be put upon thesteel bands as theytravel slowly onward, so that the delivery of the floor-cloth iscontinuous.

As the pressing apparatus, consisting of the drum P, thepressing-rollers P, the band A,

and the uide-rollers, is already known and D used, I make no claimto-it.

Havingthus described the nature of this in-' In testimony whereof i havesigned my id vention and the best means Iknow for earryname to thisspecification, in the presence of ing the same into practical effect, Iclaimtwo subscribing witnesses, this 27th day of Apparatus for themanufacture of mosaic January, A. 'D. 1897. 5 floor-cloth, consisting offlanged colnposing- FREDK V ALTON plates, and stencil and extrudingplates for differently-colored tesseree, in combination Witnesses:

with a pinned drum and a pair of endless OLIVER IMRAY, steel bands,substantially as described. JNO. P. M. MILLARD.

